SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF INDIA Advent of Europeans - Trade centers - under the Company DUTCH (OR) HOLLAND (Set 1)

  

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF INDIA

Advent of Europeans - Trade centers -  under the Company

DUTCH (OR) HOLLAND

 (Set 1)

Notes prepared by : Praturi Potayya Sarma

 

Please Note: The following notes is for only guidance purpose. For clarification of any doubt, please refer to any standard text book.

 

1)Who are called as Dutch ?

a)The people of Holland (present Netherlands) are called as  the Dutch

 

2)After whom(i.e., Europeans),  Dutch people came to India ?

a)Next to the Portuguese, the Dutch came to India.

 

3)When the United East India Company of Netherland was formed ?

a)1602 AD

 

4)When the Dutch founded their first factory in Masulipatam in Andhra Pradesh ?

a)1605 AD

 

5)What are the major Indian commodities traded by the Dutch ?

a)Cotton

b)Indigo

c)Silk, rice and opium

d)All the above

Ans : d

 

6)Where the Dutch established mints?

a)Cochin

b)Masulipattam

c)Nagapatam,Ponducherry and Pulicat

d)All the above

Ans : d

 

7)Gold pagoda (coin) with an image of Lord Venkateswara (God Vishnu) was issued at Pulicat mind by whom ?

a) Dutch

 

8)Which of the following were the reasons for the decline of Dutch Power before 1825 AD?

a)Brutal killing of some English traders by the Dutch in Amboyna in 1623AD

b) Battle of Colachel in 1741 AD  where Travancore king Martha Varma gave fatal blow

c) As per the provision of the Anglo – Dutch Treaty of 1824 (In 1814 AD there a Anglo-Dutch Treaty)

d) All the above (British agreed to completely withdraw from Indonesia for the Dutch, and Dutch in return , retired from India to trade in Indonesia)

Ans : d

 

 

10)Denmark held colonial possessions in India i..e, in which of the following towns ?

a)Tranquebar (Tamilnadu)

b)Serampore (West Bengal)

c)Nicobar islands

d)All the above

Ans: d

 

11)Who is Marcelis de Boshouwer ?

a)Dutch adventurer

b)His appeal convinced Christian IV, the King of Denmark-Norway

c)He obtained Charter in 1616AD for a monopoly on trade between Denmark and Asia for twelve years

d)All the above

Ans : d

 

12)Who are called as Serampore (West Bengal) trio ?

a)William Carey

b)Joshua Marshman

c)William Ward

d)All the above (in 1818 AD they started Serampore College)

And : d

 

13)Frederiksnagore is the name of which city ?

a)Serampore (West Bengal)

 

14)’Dutch remains in Machilipatnam’  a testimony is written by whom ?

a)Captain Albert Harvey of the British army

15)Who were called as ‘Vallandulu’ in local language in Masulipatnam ?

a)The Dutch

 

16)When  a severe cyclone hit Bandar fort, (Machilipatnam) [about 30,000 people died  and more than 13 feet high tidal waves engulfed the town upto 17KM radius ]?

a) On November 1, 1864

 

17)Historical monument at Bandar Fort (Machilipatnam) which was once the east coastal gateway of trade for whom ?

a)Dutch

b)French

c)British & Nizam rulers

d)All the above

Ans : d

 

18)In the year 1602 AD, the Dutch first entered Machilipatnam via sea route from Holland and settled where ?

a)Machavaram of Bandar

 

19)The traders who came from Holland were called Hollandeeyulu or Hollandeeya which turned into Vollandeeya and the settlement of the Vollandeeya people came to be known as what ?

a)Vallandeyapalem (It is called as Valandapalem. Here there a is Dutch cemetery, which is being maintained by Archaeological Survey of India )

 

20) Match the following :

a)English Palem : British lived in  Rangrez palem or Angrezulu palem (Now it is called as English palem)

b)Parasupeta : Named after French traders, who came here from Paris. France people were called as Faraasulu or  Paraasulu and their settlement was called as Parasupeta or French Peta

c)Robertson peta : Robertson worked as collector for Krishna District (about 1816 AD). At  that time Guntur, East and West Godavari districts were part of Krishna district)

 

 

 

 

 

21)From 1616 AD to 1690 AD,  Pulicat was the Official headquarters of Dutch Coromandel. At Pulicat, which fort was constructed by Dutch ?

a)Fort Geldria or Geldaria

 

22)In 1615 AD, the first VOC (Dutch) mint in India was established in Fort Geldria,(Pulicat) where initially ‘Kas’ (copper coin with VOC monogram and a Sanskrit legend were minted ). This mint operated upto which year?

a)Till 1674  (New mint was established at Nagapattinam. There coins were widely used in Ceylon / Sri Lanka. )

 

23) Nagapattinam fort is called as what ?

a)Fort Vijf Sinnen

 

24)The Dutch East India Company maintained a trading post known as Jaggernaikpoeram or Jaggernaickpuram. Where is this place ?

a) Kakinada

 

25)On September 25,1734 , who issued a parwana and a kaul to the Dutch by which the hamlet of ‘Jagernaykpalam’ (Near Kakinada)  was given in full possession to the VOC for erecting a loge there?

 ?

a)Haji Muhammad Hussain, then Nawab of Rajamundry

 

26) Dutch fortsfactories  in Andhra Pradesh. Which set is correct /

a)Fort Bheemunipatnam : Visakhapatnam

b) Palakol : Factory from AD 1613 to AD 1825

c)Draksharama : Factory from AD 1633 to AD 1730

Ans: All the above

 

27)  Which is the Second Dutch factory on the Coromandel Coast( but abandoned) ?

a)Nizampatnam  (Near Baptala ): Factory from AD 1606 to AD 1668

 

 

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The Dutch in India :

Brief Points:

1)The Dutch Company was started in 1592 AD by a group of Merchants.

2)After three years, Cornelius Houtman set out for India and returned with large cargo in 1597 AD.

3)In 1602 AD , all the Dutch companies were amalgamated into the Dutch East India Company.

4) A charter was given . It gave a monopoly of eastern trade to the Company whih was also empowered to wage war, make treaties ,occupy territories and build fortresses.

5)The main object of the Dutch Company was trade.

6)The rivalry between the  two countries (i.e., English and the Dutch companies) increased to such an extent that in 1623 AD the Dutch perpetrated the massacre of Amboyna. After this tragedy, the English were forced to leave the Spice Islands and retire to the mainland of India.(“The high-handed policy of the Dutch in the Malaya Archipelago was a blessing in disguise for the English.” The Dutch had to pay an indemnity of 85,000 British Pounds in the time of Cromwell.

7)The Dutch conquered Malacca from the Portuguese in 1641 AD

8)In 1658 AD, the Dutch acquired Ceylon.

9) In India, the Dutch had Nagapatnam on the Madras Coast and Chinsurah in Bengal.

 

The Danes in India :

1)Denmark people (called as Danes ) founded a settlement in 1620 AD at Tranquebar in the Tanjore district.

2)In 1676 AD, Danes (Denmark people) occupied Serampore.

3) In 1845 AD, the Danes sold their settlements in India to the British Government.